[Bug 26846] New: Contact classification interface

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26846

           Summary: Contact classification interface
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: tp-spec
        AssignedTo: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: mikhail.zabaluev at nokia.com
            Blocks: 25185


There are cases in which it is useful to distinguish classes of contacts within
one connection for UI purposes.

These include:
- Undisclosed callers in Skype: The handles can be made unique (no idea yet if
Skype can reuse the temporary contact IDs), but the ID is meaningless and
should not be displayed.
- Undisclosed callers in telephony: coming from a pseudo-contact because it's
too weird to have a call with nobody in StreamedMedia (the new Call channel
could help with that). The pseudo-contact could be one for all anonymous calls
or unique per call, but there is no meaninful handle ID either way, and relying
on the CM to supply special case display labels for the UI is bollocks.
- Emergency communications: it's useful to see that a contact resolved by
regular mechanisms (e.g. by requesting handle "112") is in fact an emergency
contact.

There should be an interface and a contact property to obtain contact classes
or "tags".


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